It was very well executed. I watched it live on the internet. One odd thing was that he missed breaking the free fall record by mere seconds because he pulled the chute too early. But it seemed like he had so much more time. I'm no parachuter - but that seemed like an unfortunate mistake.

He did get two records though. Highest manned ballon flight, and highest human parachute jump - i think it was just under 128K feet.

Still unofficial on sound barrier. The breaking that or not did not seem to be impacted by parachute. Looked like he was already slowing down due to hitting the earths atmosphere. But yeah. No idea if HE pulled the cord or if it was automated for some condition. But yeah. Only missed it by like 5-10 seconds and he we still thousands of feet in the air so no clue why the chute was pulled.

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"If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution."

So the borehole in Russia (or wherever it is) is deeper than the deepest point of the ocean? That's pretty fucking cool. I never really thought about those two deep points together.

EDIT: So, I watched the video and when he jumped I seriously yelled so loud my husband had to come upstairs because he was thinking I was having an heart attack or something. That was an amazing video, with and amazing view of Earth.

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